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If you’re more of a winter person, then Viessa is the Descendant for you. Her playstyle revolves around freezing her enemies and dealing AoE damage (with some DoT effects to boot). What is best is that you don’t even have to grind to unlock Viessa – she is available as one of the three starter characters that you get to pick at the beginning. To use Viessa’s full potential, you need a good build. Read on to see what is the current best build for Viessa in The First Descendant.
Best Viessa Build
Viessa primarily uses her Skills to deal damage and slow enemies. The playstyle focuses on slowing the enemies down as much as possible and hitting them with Chill damage. So, a solid mix of MP improvements and Skill Power is needed. Below you will see the best items for Viessa for each equipment category: Weapon (and Weapon Modules), Descendant Modules, Reactor, and External Components.
Best Weapon for Viessa in The First Descendant
The best weapon for Viessa to further improve her AoE damage is the Thunder Cage Submachine Gun. When you eliminate an enemy using the Thunder Cage, they have a set chance (about 60%) to release an Electric Shockwave which deals even more damage to everything around them. Pair that Viessa’s already impressive AoE mechanics, and you’ll be eliminating Vulgus swarms with ease.
Since Bosses are not the best target for AoE attacks, you’ll need something to help you out when dealing with them. The best secondary weapons for Viessa are Nazeistra’s Devotion Hand Cannon and Afterglow Sword Sniper Rifle. Both of these weapons capitalize on hitting Weak Points. Nazeistra’s Devotion reduces the DEF value of the target by 30% when hitting Weak Points, while Afterglow Sword gets a stackable Damage increase and Reload Reduction as long as you keep hitting those Weak Points.
Weapon Modules
Since you’ll be using Thunder Cage, the best Weapon Modules that you should have as Viessa should focus on improving the ATK of the weapon and Fire Rate. That is so you can utilize those Shockwaves as much as possible. The best Weapon Modules for Viessa are:
| Weapon Module | Effect |
| Rifling Reinforcement | Improves weapon’s ATK |
| Action and Reaction | Improves weapon’s ATK and Recoil |
| Fire Rate Up | Improves weapon’s Fire Rate |
| Marksman | Improves weapon’s ATK and Critical Hit Rate |
Nazeistra’s Devotion and Afterglow Sword all focus on hitting Weak Points, so Modules that improve on that are more than useful. Modules like Weak Point Control and Weak Point Sight to improve the damage, and Hawkeye to improve your accuracy, so you can more easily hit those spots.
Descendant Modules
Viessa is a Skill-heavy Descendant that uses a lot of MP during fights, so you will need some Modules that improve her Skills and help out with MP usage. Additionally, there is a special Module for Viessa that replaces her slowing abilities with DoT effects, called Hypothermy. Equipping this rare Module will increase your overall damage output, but will remove some of Viessa’s general utility (ie, slow effect)
The best Descendant Modules for Viessa are:
| Descendant Module | Effect |
| Chill Specialist | Improves Chill Skill Power |
| Energy Collection | Allows leeching of MP from enemies |
| Nimble Fingers | Reduces Skill Cooldown |
| Strong Mentality | Reduces Skill MP cost |
| Skill Extension | Increases Skill Duration |
| Skill Expansion | Increases Skill Effect Range |
| Hypothermy | Replaces slowing effects (Ice Shackle) with damage-over-time effects |
Reactor
Viessa uses a lot of Skills so a good Reactor is necessary. We are looking for Reactors that boost Chill Skills, as well as those that boost Fusion Skills (for Frost Shard, Frost Road, and Cold Snap) or Tech Skills (for Blizzard and Ice Sphere Passive).
The best Reactor for Viessa is the one that has “Frozen” in the title. Frozen Reactors improve Chill Skills, ie, all of Viessa’s Skills, so are a natural choice for this build. Furthermore, for the Fusion Skills, look for “Mixture” reactors. If you want to go along the DoT route (with Hypothermy Descendant Module), then you need a Reactor that improves Tech Skills, and those are “Mechanics” Reactors.
In summary, the best Reactor for Viessa is the Frozen Mixture Reactor, unless you are using the Hypothermy Module, in which case you should look for a Frozen Mechanics Reactor.
External Components
To round off the build, we have External Components. They are almost always a source of defensive buffs for every character, and since Viessa is far from tanky, she will benefit from them pretty much.
So, the best External Components for Viessa are those that improve Max Shields, HP Recovery, Max HP, and DEF.
We hope this build helps you tackle the game with Viessa as easily as possible.